Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, ...

Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. It imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people's appearances...

A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts...

Disknowledge: knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance E...

Discover the fascinating and outrageously readable account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in ...

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. H...

The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church in the reign of Ki...

This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that u...

In this collection of essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a variety of different perspectives on Oliver Cromwells invo...

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was a...

New 2016 paperback edition of the original 1989 printing (out-of-print).Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinke...

A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, ...

Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissio...

Defining Documents in World History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era explores vital documents from important world figures from the 15th and 16t...

When Parliament sought to raise funds through the passing of the Stamp Act in 1765 they did not anticipate the protests and staunch opposition to t...

English bibles, from Tyndale's 1525 New Testament to the 1611 King James, feature calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prayers, philological gl...

Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completel...

A volume about John Penry and his contribution to the growth of Puritanism in England in the Sixteenth Century.

This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the...